| Term | Definition |
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| Clara Barton | Person most closely associated with the founding of the American Association of the Red Cross. 1st president of the American Red Cross |
| Frances Payne Bolton | Philanthropist, Ohio congresswoman, and health care reformer whose influence led to the creation and passae of the Bolton Act (Bolton act established the US Cadet Nurse Corps; also called the Nurse Training Act of 1943) |
| Mary Breckinridge | Nurse who founded the Frontier Nursing Service (Private charitable org founded in the rural Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in 1925; assisted with deliveries for woman of the region) |
| Mary Brewster | With Lillian D Wald, established the 1st public health service in the home they shared |
| Catherine of Siena | Woman who cared for the sick in hospitals and organized an early form of ambulance service that consisted of male strectcher bearers to transport the sick to hospitals in the 1300's |
| Luther Christman | Registered nurse and a founder of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN). Also founded the National Student Nurse's Association |
| Dorothea Lynde Dix | Responsible for major reform in the treatment of the mentally ill |
| Lavinia Dock | Prominent nurse suffragette who greatly influenced the current movement of independent nursing practice that now includes the expanded role of the nurse as clinical specialist & practitioner |
| Jean Henri Dunant | Provided the vision for the Red Cross |
| Fabiola | Wealthy Roman matron who founded the 1st free Christian public hospital specifically for the sick poor in her own palace; actually engaged in nursing herself |
| Friederike Fliedner | One of the founders of the Kaiserwerth Deaconess Institute (Hospital & medical school with a 3 yr course of study for Protestant deaconessess) |
| Theodore Fliedner | One of the founders of the Kaiserwerth Deaconess Institute |
| Galen | The most famous Greek physician & surgeon who served the Romans |
| Sairey Gamp | Private duty nurse who came to work inebriated, as described by Charles Dickens. Considered the prototype of nurses of that era (Industrial Revolution time period) |
| Annie W Goodrich | !st dean of the Army School of Nursing |
| Helena | The mother of Constantine the Great, and a Christian convert who used her wealth to care for the poor |
| Hilegarde of Bingen | Benedictine nun from Germany, who trained noblewomen to care for the sick in her abbey and wrote extensively about the causes of, symptoms of, & cures for various diseases at a time when many physicians were basing their practice on horoscope reading |
| Hippocrates | Considered the father of modern scientific medicine; originator of the Hippocratic oath. |
| Imhotep | One of the 1st recorded physicians in history; worshipped after his death as the Egyptian god of medicine. (priest/physician) |
| Jesus Christ | According to Christianity, the son of God |
| Martin Luther | Former monk who sparked a movement now commonly known as the Reformation |
| Knithts Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem | Male nursing order that cared for crusaders in Jerusalem |
| Knights of St Lazarus | Nursing order of monks focusing on caring for those with leprosy |
| Mary Eliza Mahoney | 1st African American nurse to graduate from a school of nursing in the United States |
| Catherine McAuley | Founded Sisters of Mercy |
| Florence Nightingale | Nursing leader associated with the Crimean War; also considered the founder of modern professional nursing |
| Phoebe | Woman of Greek origin who converted to Christianity and was one of the 1st deaconesses; also called the 1st visiting nurse |
| Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards | One of the 1st graduates of the 1st school of nursing in America; considered by most historians to be the 1st trained nurse. (Training at New England Hospital for Woman & Children) |
| Isabel Hampton Robb | Influential leader in the field of nursing education who established the 1st grading policy in a nursing school |
| Lina L Rogers | 1st public school nurse in New York City |
| Margaret Sanger | Founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation; controversial for her views on eugenics and abortion |
| Elizabeth Seton | Eastablished the Sisters of Charity |
| Sisters of Charity | The 1st American religious order (In France established by St Vincent de Paul |
| Sisters of Mercy | An order that came to the United States in 1843 and started hospitals that cared for the wounded during the American Civil War |
| Sojourner Truth | Aftrican American woman best known for her role as an abolitionist during the Civil War, her role in women's suffrage movement, and her care of Union soldiers |
| Harriet Tubman | A black abolitionist best known for her work in the Underground Railroad movement, during which she enabled approximately 300 slaves to gain freedom; also a matron at the Colored Hospital in Virginia during the war |
| St Vincent de Paul | Founded the Sisters of Charity |
| Lillian D Wald | With Mary Brewster, established the 1st public health service in the home they shared |
| Granger Westberg | Lutheran minister who began the current parish nurse movement |
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